Hi all

I am new to the forum. Reading through all the pages of this thread, I am quite keen on either the H600A or H600B. Looks like both are the same player except the H600B has a fancier front display and a bigger case that allows a HDD to be housed within it. I will be streaming directly from my PC or a NAS I am currently building so my guess is H600A will be my best choice.

Can I please ask how much the H600A sells for and where about can I get it? TIA!

EDIT: Saw a previous post saying the H600A without WiFi Dongle (I don't need one) sells for RM350, is this correct? If so, what about to get one in KL?

This post has been edited by sschen: Jun 12 2011, 01:46 AM

Thanks, do you have details of this member? And also shop number etc?? Thanks again

Also, which NAS are you considering?

I have the older model Oppo BDP-83 and yes it does have media files playing capabilities. But its media playing compatibilities is just not up to scratch with stand alone media player. I have tried transcoding via TVersity, PS3 Media server etc, and I get audio lag, external subtitles being out of sync etc. Some files won't even play and it is permanently hooked up to the internet so its firmware is always updated too. In the end I gave up and bought a cheap Realtek based media player and have never looked back. My wife watches a lot of rmvb content hence why a Realtek based media player is a must for me.

Don't get me wrong, I love the Oppo but I will only use it for BD disks, just not media files.

I am not actually building a NAS from PC parts. But I recently bought a HP server that doubles up as a NAS server. It is the HP Proliant N36L Microserver. Link here. Still in the process of putting the bits and pieces together. I am no Linux/Unix guru but I am intending to try FreeNAS first which will run off a 2GB USB stick. This thing has 4 bays for HDD which should be plenty for the short term.

Thanks, I just sent a PM to him. RM$350 for the HD600A without WiFi is a bargain.

I should mention that I am actually in Perth Australia. I am guessing all members here are either based in Malaysia or Singapore?

Not sure if he will post to Australia or not. My wife and I try to go to KL once a year or two as we really miss the Malaysian food and we often stay near the Golden Triangle area. If he won't post to Australia, I guess we can wait till we go to KL next time, likely to be in a few months time. Alternatively any good members here want to do me a big favour and post one to me? I am happy to return the favour if you ever need anything from Australia

Does anyone know how heavy the HD600A package is? I am trying to work out from the POS Malaysia website how much it will cost to post to Australia.

The HP Microserver I bought supposedly only uses 30-40W when idle, and up to 60-70W when streaming off it. This is what the members on our Australian forum are reporting. The real advantage this server has is as you put it flexibility. The off-the-shelf Buffalo NAS is very popular in Australia as well but a 4-bay version in Australia will cost more than A$300. The HP Microserver only costs me $199 and it is basically a 4-bay NAS. Plus it has a dual core 1.3GHz CPU as opposed to single core and slower CPU in most off-the-shelf NAS on the market.

Thanks for the links to those online websites, I am going to look into them tonight

With taobao, is it a China website? Does it ship internationally?? Assuming it is a China website, the price for the HD600A before shipping is only 549 Yuan. I just need to work out if they ship internationally and how much.

Thanks again for all your help and suggestions. You have been a great help

Don't forget that IF you have a Sony PS3, it has a blu-ray drive that will play blu-ray disk. You won't be able to play blu-ray disk if you just buy a media player, you still need to buy a blu-ray drive as an add-on to the media player to play blu-ray.

When I was in KL last year, a lot of the shops that sell blu-ray disks are selling them at more than 100 RM each, which is very expensive.

I assume those of you that do buy blu-ray must be importing them from Amazon US or HK?

Without intending to go too far off topic, I am just curious if xstreamer releases timely firmware updates to solve bugs etc.

When I was buying my first ever media player last year, I was considering getting the xstreamer. In the end, I chose not to buy any of their players because my googling on it was turning up tons and tons of unhappy owners with complaints about promises not being delivered by xstreamer, lots of unresolved bugs etc. Is it as bad as it shows on the forums, or have their improved on their firmware????

If the subtitles are embedded, then you won't be able to do anything about it. If the subtitles are from an external source file, then you can use the "Left" cursor on the remote to decrease the font size. The "Right" cursor increases the font size. The "Up" and "Down" cursors are to move the subtitles up and down respectively on the screen. I use these four buttons to adjust the font size and placement a lot, very handy

I am also keen to know how to change to a different font as I find the embedded English/Chinese font too plain for my likings. If someone knows a good source to download a different font, please provide a link.

You mentioned you can change it from the Menu when playing a movie, how? I can't seem to do that even when the movie is being played.

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Added on August 11, 2011, 7:51 pmHi there, where about is the latest firmware 1.0.4.12?

The China Hi-Media firmware update link Hi-Media Firmware Update, still shows 1.0.3.4?

This post has been edited by sschen: Aug 11 2011, 07:51 PM

I stream movies from a NAS using NFS though so I don't have a connected HDD. Where will I store the TTF files in that case?

I upgraded to v1.0.4.21 last week when it was released. It definitely only supports BD1.0.

In fact, I think BD playability of this version is worse than previous version.

I have rip of Gladiator BD in my NAS which used to play on the older firmware (1.0.4.15 and below), it won't play on this firmware anymore. I also have other audio glitches on both MKV and BDRips which I never had with previous firmware releases. If they don't release another firmware soon, I am contemplating reverting back to the older firmware like 1.0.4.15.

I have several 20GB MKV files on my NAS and can confirm that the HD600A plays them fine. It even bitstreams the lossless audio to my AVR

I haven't read the HD900 review in its entirety. But it did say an internal fan has been added to help lower the internal temperature. It also mentions the internal fan volume is quite low but this is obviously very subjective without any objective sound level figures to back it up

而600B為人詬病的內置硬碟過熱問題，900B也加裝了一個風扇去解決。

看來加裝這個風扇的確能把溫度控制下來，而且風扇的聲音很小，

When you say new firmware, which firmware is that? I don't have any problem with TrueHD, but my player tends to output garbled noise intermittently when decoding DTS-HD MA audio track on blu-ray rips

Not sure about running NFS client on Windows XP Home. But I can confirm that NFS on the HD600A definitely works. I am using NFS to stream files off my NAS running FreeNAS 8. Autoscan works too but I have statically defined the NFS shares on the HD600A to save me time having to Autoscan for the NFS shares everytime the HD600A is powered up.

I have similar problems before with streaming BD ISO. A solution I found is to extract the ISO onto their blu-ray file structures (BDMV folder etc). Since then, I don't have any problem streaming both BDRips for both 25GB or 50GB disks. Now I rip the file structures directly instead of ripping to ISO.

The firmware file is normally a compressed tar or rar file. You can't just rename it to install.img, you have to unpack/uncompress the downloaded file to extract the "install.img" file